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Peregrine Circus is a Welsh travelling circus company based in North Wales. It was founded in 2025 by Robin Timson, and the company tours in a traditional big top with productions combining circus performance, live music and theatrical storytelling.
Description
[edit]Peregrine Circus was founded by Robin Timson, who was born in North Wales. Before establishing the company, Timson spent five years as company manager of Giffords Circus. He spent the winter before the circus's first season building it in Llanddulas.[1][2]
Peregrine Circus uses a traditional touring big-top format while incorporating theatrical staging and live music into its productions.[3][4] Its tent was based on nineteenth-century circus tent designs, while a vintage caravan was adapted as a box office, and a horse box was converted into a food wagon.[1][2] Both of its first two seasons incorporated live musicians into the performance, alongside circus disciplines and ensemble theatrical sequences.[2][3] The company describes itself as an all-human "village green circus".[5]
Peregrine Circus opened in Llanddulas on 9 May 2025.[1][2] Its inaugural tour travelled through towns and communities across North Wales, including Conwy, Llandudno and Rhuddlan, with the tour concluding in Betws-y-Coed in August.[3]
The company returned for a second touring season in 2026 with a new production, Belly of the Whale.[2][4] The second season expanded the company's touring area beyond North Wales, with performances in Aberystwyth, New Quay, Brecon and Llandrindod Wells.[2][4]
Productions
[edit]First season (2025)
[edit]The inaugural production drew on imagery associated with ancient stone circles and combined circus performance, storytelling and live music.[1] The performance took place in an 18-metre, two-pole cream big top with a dark-blue interior on a raised circular stage, while musicians Cori Smith, Seth Bye and Michael Chance performed on a separate stage. The set incorporated a large moon, trees and moss-covered stones.[3]
The programme opened with comedy jester Erwyd, who also appeared throughout the production with comedy juggling, balancing and visual-comedy routines. Other acts included hula-hoop and Cyr wheel performances by Laura Hogg; dance and hair suspension by Jazmin Chalom and Gonza Leyva; aerial silks by Viktoria Murtinova; and springboard acrobatics by the Hungarian trio The Gents, comprising Géza, Félix and Attila. Chalom and Leyva performed an Argentinian gaucho routine using drums and bolas as the final circus act before the company finale.[3]
Belly of the Whale (2026)
[edit]Peregrine Circus's second production, Belly of the Whale, toured Wales in 2026. The production combined contemporary circus and theatre within a maritime narrative.[4][6] It featured singers, dancers, acrobats, a comedy clown, and live music.[2]
They performed in Llanddulas, Bangor and Trearddur Bay in May, then Machynlleth and Dolgellau in June.[7] The circus was at Aberystwyth Arts Centre,[2] before spending a week in New Quay at the start of July.[8] The company appeared in Brecon and Llandrindod Wells at the end of July,[9] and then in Newtown at the start of August.[10]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 Whilding, Alex (26 April 2025). "New circus to travel around North Wales this summer". North Wales Pioneer. Retrieved 31 August 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 McNicholls Vale, Julie (8 July 2026). "Experience the magic of Peregrine Circus in New Quay". Cambrian News. Retrieved 31 August 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Payne, Andy (September 2025). "Peregrine Circus". King Pole. No. 248. Circus Friends Association of Great Britain. pp. 16–17.
- 1 2 3 4 Williams, Luke (25 June 2026). "Peregrine Circus to bring immersive show to Brecon and Llandrindod". Brecon & Radnor Express. Retrieved 31 August 2026.
- ↑ "About". Peregrine Circus. Retrieved 31 August 2026.
- ↑ "Belly of the Whale". Peregrine Circus. Retrieved 31 August 2026.
- ↑ "Popular travelling circus to return to rural Wales next summer with dates announced". Cambrian News. 12 December 2025. Retrieved 21 September 2026.
- ↑ Birt, Elizabeth (1 July 2026). "Circus announces week of performance in this part of Ceredigion". Tivyside Advertiser. Retrieved 21 September 2026.
- ↑ "Circus show comes to Brecon and Llandrindod". Brecon & Radnor Express. 24 June 2026. Retrieved 21 September 2026.
- ↑ Compton, Karen (16 July 2026). "Peregrine Circus brings immersive theatre show, Belly of the Whale to Mid Wales". Shropshire Star. Retrieved 21 September 2026.
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